Sponsored Results: Hebrew Words: Shalom (שָׁלוֹם)

The word shalom is used in the world variety of expressions and contexts in Hebrew speech and writing:

• Shalom aleichem (שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם; literally "well-being be upon you" or "may you be well"), this expression is used to greet others and is a Hebrew equivalent of "hello". The appropriate response to such a greeting is "upon you be well-being" ( עֲלֵיכֶם שָׁלוֹם, aleichem shalom). This is a cognate of the Arabic Assalamu alaikum. On Erev Shabbat (Sabbath eve), Jewish people have a custom of singing a song which is called Shalom aleichem, before the Kiddush over wine of the Shabbat dinner is recited.
• In the Gospels in the New Testament, Jesus often uses the greeting "Peace be unto you," a translation of shalom aleichem.
• Shalom by itself is a very common abbreviation, and is used in Modern Israeli Hebrew to both greet and farewell. In this it is similar to the Hawaiian aloha and the Indian namaste. In modern Israel among secular people, it is being widely replaced in the 21st century by "b'ye" (English) and "yallah b'ye" (a mixture of Arabic and English.) This development is greatly deplored by traditionalists and purists. Shalom is still used by Jewish people around the world, and even by many non-Jewish people.
• Shabbat shalom (שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם) is a common greeting used on Shabbat (the Jewish sabbath). This is most prominent in areas with Mizrahi, Sephardi or Modern Israel influence. Many Ashkenazi communities in the Jewish diaspora use Yiddish Gut shabbes in preference or interchangeably.
• Ma sh'lom'cha (מַה שְׁלוֹמְךָ; literally "what is your well-being/peace?") is a Hebrew equivalent of the English "how are you?". This is the form addressed to a single male. The form for addressing a single female is Ma sh'lomech? For addressing several females, Ma sh'lomchen? For a group of males or a mixed-gender group, Ma sh'lomchem?
• Alav hashalom (עַלָיו הַשָּׁלוֹם; literally "upon him is peace") is a phrase used in some Jewish communities, especially Ashkenazi ones, after mentioning the name of a deceased respected individual.
• Oseh shalom is the part of a passage commonly found as a concluding sentence in much Jewish liturgy (including the birkat hamazon, kaddish and personal amida prayers). The full sentence is "עוֹשֶֹה שָׁלוֹם בִּמְרוֹמָיו, הוּא יַעֲשֶֹה שָׁלוֹם עָלֵינוּ,וְעַל כָּל יִשְֹרָאֵל וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן (Osĕ shālom bīmromāv hu ya'asĕ shālom aleynu v'al kol Yisrael v'imru amen).", which translates to English as "He who makes peace in His heights may He make peace upon us and upon all Israel; and say, Amen."
• The word Shalom is widely used in popular Israeli songs about Peace such as In Our Garden, Ratziti Sheteda, Shalom Chaverim, etc.
• President William Jefferson Clinton bade farewell to Yitzkhak Rabin with the words Shalom, Chaver.
• The word 'Lom (and occasionally Sh'lom) have been used (especially by Jewish teenagers) as the contracted forms of Shalom in street slang.

Related words in Modern Hebrew include l'shalem (לְשַׁלֵּם), "to pay" and shalem (שָׁלֵם), "complete".

Used as a name

Shalom as a name of God

Shalom is one of God's 72 names in Hebrew.

Shalom as a name for people

Shalom is also common in modern Hebrew in Israel, as a (male) given name or a surname. Note that it is related to the name Solomon (Heb. שלומה Shelomo).

Notable people named Shalom include:

• Silvan Shalom (Israeli politician), and his wife Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes
• Sholom Aleichem (Yiddish author)
• Shalom Harlow (model and actress)
• Shalom Carmy (rabbi)
• Shalom Shachna (rabbi)
• Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (rabbi)

Related male names include Shlomi (Hebrew name) ("my well-being").

Related female names include Shulamit, Shulamith, Shlomtsion or Shlomzion and Salome and Shlomith.

Shalom as a name for organizations

Shalom can be part of an organization's name.

The name of the following organizations and places refer to "peace" between Israel and its Arab neighbors:

• Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
• Brit Shalom
• Gush Shalom
• Hevel Shalom
• Neve Shalom
• Shalom Sesame

Shalom as name for synagogues or structures

Shalom is used as part of other names, such as for synagogues, as in:

• Beth Sholom Synagogue
• Shalom Meir tower
• Shalom Park in Charlotte, North Carolina and Denver, Colorado
• Shalom Tower in Tel Aviv, Israel

Shalom as the name for events

• The 1982 Lebanon War is known as "מלחמת שלום הגליל" (= "Milhemeth Shlom Hagalil" - "The War for the Shlaom (or Well-Being) of the Galilee") in Hebrew.